June 29, 2016

The Architectural League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects and designers. The Prize, established in 1981, recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum for the exchange of their ideas. Each year The Architectural League and the Young Architects + Designers Committee organize a portfolio competition. Six winners are then invited to present their work in a variety of public fora, including lectures, an exhibition, and on the League’s website. This year’s theme for the portfolio competition, (im)permanence, asks how time affects architecture’s assertion of style, methods of assembly,…

June 24, 2016

CLOSING RECEPTION: Tuesday, September 6, 6-8 p.m. Poets and painters strive to express the ineffable through color, gesture, beat, and meter. Li Young Lee’s poem, From Blossoms, unfolds the experiential to expose the sublime nature of a singular encounter with a dusty fruit of summer. So too can abstract painting reach deep within us, asking for more than what is physically there — not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days. Painting is an impossible blossom, sometimes rising like smoke from a chimney, sometimes dropped at the doorstep like a mouse afterthe cat’s nighttime…

June 2, 2016

Art.Write.Now.2016 National Exhibition features the top art and writing from teens across the United States, identified through the prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Judges for the 2016 Scholastic Awards included Mickalene Thomas, Ben Samuels, Art Spiegelman, Elissa Schappell, Jack Whitten, Justine Koons, and Breena Clarke. The Art.Write.Now.2016 National Exhibition spans two locations and showcases more than 1,000 of the freshest and most relevant visual and literary works from students nationwide in grades 7–12. If you want to know what issues are on the minds of teenagers, Art.Write.Now.2016 is sure to provide valuable insights through film, animation, 2D and 3D…

May 9, 2016

Combining works from across all of Parsons’ undergraduate and associate degree programs, Future Now will take place in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s Kellen Gallery.  Curated by Andria Hickey. The Parsons Store-Y Making Lab and Pop-Up Shop will showcase products made by talented Parsons undergraduate students beginning May 9.  Products will be available for purchase from May 16-20. For information on Festival exhibitions and events, please visit the Parsons Festival page or check the Events Calendar.

April 3, 2016

National Exhibition Launch: Thursday, April 14, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, Ground Floor Conversation between Glenn Martin and Venida Browder Opening Reception: to follow the National Exhibition Launch, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, 66 Fifth Avenue, Ground Floor Please R.S.V.P. for the launch event and opening reception here. States of Incarceration reflects a process of dialogue and discovery among over 500 students and people directly impacted by incarceration in 20 cities. They grew up in a United States that incarcerates more of its people than any country in the world, and than…

February 6, 2016

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Dress & Emotion: The Exhibition showcases the cumulative results of a three-year long research project that seeks to explore the emotional and sensory act of dressing.  The images and objects on display aim to depict themes of body image, identity/self-curation, representation and the messaging of dress. The work included shows eight key ‘Outliers’ (defined as those with an established personal dress code that has evolved over time and as a result sets them apart as distinctive in terms of identity) representing highly diverse backgrounds and dress styles. Video documentary clips of four key outliers in their home environments, tell the stories of the…

February 4, 2016

In an age where jobs are in short supply and workers are rendered invisible, overalls and work clothes have turned into a fashion genre. Curated by Alessandro Guerriero and produced in collaboration with the Triennale di Milano, this exhibition features the work of forty designers, including Coop Himmelb(l)au, Mella Jaarsma, Angela Missoni, Issey Miyake, Faye Toogood, Otto von Busch, Vivienne Westwood, Allan Wexler, and others.

January 25, 2016

Part exhibition, part archive, and part platform for workshops, events and talks, Mass Observation 2.0 aims to create a participatory space for research and exchange. It is based on a collaborative transdisciplinary seminar and project by Parsons/The New School, School of Art, Media and Technology, New York and the Institute for Art and Art Theory / Intermedia, University of Cologne. The project aims to research everyday life with a theoretical and practical, analytical and investigative, critical and experimental, online and offline approach, and to understand the everyday as a phenomenon that since modernity continuously shapes our perception of the world…

December 22, 2015

What’s inside the various products that make up our daily environment—in the walls of our buildings or the chemicals in our home? In the spirit of transparency, the windows of the Kellen Gallery will feature a display by the Parsons Healthy Materials Lab of common building materials that may or may not contain harmful toxins. Formed to build healthier lives for people through a reduction of toxins in the building industry, the Parsons Healthy Materials Lab works with partners to help identify better building products that will become part of a library of healthy, affordable products, encouraging leaders to pay…

October 22, 2015

Image production is dependent on a fragile balance of celebrating freedom of expression and freedom of information while protecting the right to the image for everyone involved. The media’s methods for disseminating reoccurring images depicting bodies brutalized by war often work in direct opposition to this central goal. This exhibition and the accompanying conference celebrate the work of Syrian filmmaker collective Abounaddara, and its crucial contribution to transforming the dominant international media discourse on warfare, violence and migration. Since the onset of the Syrian revolution, the anonymous collective Abounaddara has engaged in this international debate using filmmaking tactics, releasing one…